English Assistant Professor Gary McDowell has two essays forthcoming in SLAB and The Bellingham Review. Both essays are excerpts from a memoir-in-progress. He also has poems that will be published in literary journals Salt Hill, Bateau, Linebreak, and The Georgetown Review. McDowell will read and discuss the poems from his forthcoming book, Weeping at a Stranger’s Funeral (Dream Horse Press, 2014), Feb. 23 at The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 in a talk titled, “Household Fire and Other Poems.”